ITT awful vidya """trends"""

>open world
>crafting
>survival

Open world is great if you can fucking populate it with things to do.

Crafting is almost always collectathon bullshit trash.

Survival is a shit "genre."

zombies

>>382919896
Would you rather have New Game+ or Post Game Content?

>>382920081
Breath of the Wild did it surprisingly well.

I almost wish it hadn't. Now every other game for the next five years is going to be open world / crafting / survival.

>Online MP grindfests

I miss the days of UT and Quake where it was all available just by logging on.

>>382919896
>Youtuber games

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>>382919896
>Have to 100% the game to get the true ending
>Have to finish the whole game more than once to get the true ending
>Have to FIND the secret true ending
I don't have time for this shit, I got job.

>>382919896

>Implying NG+ hasn't been around for decades

>Implying NG+ doesn't add replayability to a game if done correctly

Is this bait

>>382919896
>massive text boxes for lore

I'm not reading 4 pages of info on the Second King of Donglemires wife. Just fucking mention the backstory in passing and let me come to my own conclusions instead of having massive lengthy books or text logs around every corner. If you want to shove info down my throat, make it a generic cinematic cutscene experience like Uncharted.

>>382919896

>accessibility

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Achievements.

>>382920261
>Have to 100% the game to get the true ending
I wish it was back honestly.
What you are saying is total bullshit. The only big game that did this lately was NieR: Automata. Nowadays every developer will make their game so that player will never miss anything and will handhold them.

>>382920243

i miss ut99 and 2004

There is literally nothing wrong with NG+

>water leve/mission
>"A sinking feeling"

>>382920081
those are ok if survival and exploration are the point of the game, but if there's a plot to follow and quests to do then yes, they come as pointless obstacles and time sinks.

>collectibles which serve nothing
>2d platformer
>have to replay multiple times for all endings/achievements
>impossible to get achievements

>>382920487
Closest I've come to the experience lately is Titanfall 2, but even that has unlock trees.

Fortunately after you play for a while they give you a means to bypass it, but still bullshit.

>>382920448
By 100% I mean collecting all the myriad of useless items that serve no purpose in neither gameplay nor story.
I hate vidya that treats the player like a retard but I'm not gonna keep playing it if I'm forced to keep running around gathering 4000 fucking feathers after killing all the enemies in the level to see the real ending of the game or some dumb shit like that.

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>>382919896
>story rich
>open world RPG

>>382920306
Some people like the guy above you don't have the attention span to play through a game a second time. Matter of fact, those same people are also guilty of rushing through it then coming on /v/ to complain about it.

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>>382919896
git fucking gud

>>382920306
its annoying if some of the game material can only be accesed on a new game+
specially if its one of those long ass RPGs

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>>382920386
>that part in p5 when everything was revealed before they have to explain everything and how it happened.
a few moments later
>ok so just to make sure we explained it right...
>MFW this shit just would not stop

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>non-white characters

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>>382920261
Spoilers obviously but whatever

>play Arkham Knight
>manor explodes
>"this is it... this is the end of Batman"
>what the fuck is this shit ending
>CATCH UP ALL CRIMINALS TO SEE THE TRUE ENDING!!!
>okay, can't be too hard
>243 Riddler Trophies are part of his Most Wanted mission
>go on autism spree and collect them all
>go to see the true ending
>it's just one bonus cutscene
>"this is it... this is the end of Batman"

>>382919896
You know NG+ was popularized by Chrono Trigger as a way to see the multiple endings of the game without having to replay the entirety of the game from level 1? And CT came out in 1995? So it's not exactly a fucking trend, retard.

>>382919896
Obvious ones but I don't have much problems outside those

DLC then they literally are butchered content from a game
Microtransactions
Free2Play but Pay2Win
Episodic releases
Censorship
Most mobile games in general
Open-world, who the fuck likes it?
Meaningless choices
Autistic requirements for plot-necessary stuff

>>382920751
I only play a game again if its story/gameplay are damn fucking good. Case in point being Ace Combat, Doom, Metro, STALKER, Crash Bandicoot, etc.

I finished Doom 2016 without even bothering with the fucking collectibles because fuck all of that.

>pickle boss
>"hehe looks like you're in a pickle!"
>"I'm gonna DILL you!"

The thing is, a lot of linear games have me wish for more open and spaceous level design nowadays but a lot of open world games have me wish for more structure. Few games manage to nail just the right balance.

>>382921193
>lava level
>is it me or is it just too HOT here?!

>music boss
>let's pump up the fucking volume!

Always online :^)

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>>382919896
>NG+
>a new trend
>"awful"

You have to be over 18 to post here

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>Beat game
>It gives you a ridiculously overpowered weapon so you can fuck around in further playthroughs
Thanks RE4.

>>382921275
>>382921193
>Fire boss
>"You can't fire me, I'm your boss."

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>collectibles
>qtes
>durability
>interactive cutscenes

>>382920683
This i can agree with.
However the mentality that player has to see everything on his first playthrough is retarded IMO.
W2 is the best example. Depending on your choices in Act I, Act II looks totally different and takes place in different locations, has different characters and quests. However according to CDPR almost half of the players had no idea that it changed this much.
Now devs are just afraid that player won't see everything they prepared for him so we have all this handholding in games.

>Moral Choice System

>>382921417
Also the outfit that lets you completely ignore Ashley

RE4 has some of the best new game content desu, great replability.

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Point scoreboards are meaningless.
Achievements are meaningless.
Trophies are meaningless.
Competitve scenes are meaningless.

Having fun with the game is all that matters.

>>382921198
I feel like Splinter cell chaos theory was one of them.

Enough paths to let you take different approaches, but not so many that you can wander.

>>382921582
>kill entire Megaton
>devil incarnate
>give some beggar 50 bottles of water
>jesus reborn

>>382921701
I do loathe when the achievement/trophy sound and icon pops up when you pass a certain point in a game, see a certain cutscene or beat a certain boss. Its sometimes jarring as fuck, like if you were watching a blu ray and it automatically made your phone go off

>>382920210
Both. I'd like a Final Save point before the final boss/level/etc. and then when you've beaten it the first time, post-game content unlocks and you can keep playing for completion's sake, or you can start a new game +
>>382920448
>>382920683
KH does it best, you're rewarded the secret ending for less completion on higher difficulties so it's a trade off between grinding and difficult gameplay.

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>>382920790
>"Come collect my trophies and then find me batman teeheeheehee"

Fuck you nerd, stay in your hole you autistic green retard, got real criminals to hunt.

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>mfw nearly every trend has bad examples and good examples
Name one video game trend that doesn't have at least ONE (1) good example.

>>382922307
Always online.

>>382922465
Business decision not a vidya game design trend.

>>382922543
Used in videogames and it became a trend.
Videogames are built on business decisions.

>completed quests and slain enemies of the area across the land
>completed heroic deeds
>npc still question your motives

Fuck I just want the game to know I will fuck up an entire city next time some guard spits at me or tells me no lollygaggin

>>382922307
sentry guns

>>382920414
>Achievements.
>a trend
We've had achivements for like 20+ years now anon

>>382922307
having to buy plastic toys as part of the game

>>382920219
I feel like what makes BotW seem so great is how fun it is just fucking around with the physics. If games don't do that and try to copy it, it's going to end up being a really boring experience.

>>382922772
>The only game I have ever played is Overwatch
TF2, Portal 1+2
>>382923072
Smash did it right. Training the amiibo's was cool but didn't feel like something cut out of the main game.

>>382923228
Amiibos were cash-grabs for manchildren, you dumbass.

>>382923228
>TF2 sentries are fun in any way
Portal turrets are great tho

>>382923228
except TF2 was exactly what I was thinking of though. Most antifun horseshit imaginable
I'll give you Portal though

>>382923407
You couldn't have done something like the Smash 4 amiibo system baked into the game instead, not being able to take them other palces would've defeated the point

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>>382920784
>caring about color skin in a fucking GAME

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>easy
>normal
>hard
>meme name difficult

>>382922465
Xenoblade X did it decently well.

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I hate optional objectives. They nag at me. Makes it impossible to enjoy the game

>>382924321
Enjoy not being able to play it when your internet drops.

>>382924258
that's a very old trend buddy

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>>382924258
>ULTRA MEME DIFFICULTY
>ULTRA MEME DIFFICULTY +
>HYPER MEME DIFFICULTY + ( DLC only )

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>>382921193
Name 10 (seven) games that do this.

>>382924475
You could've just said when the server fucks up like simcity or diablo

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>forced to create your character

uh howabout no. just let me play the game, stupid fuicking RPGs

>>382924593
>>382922940
>they're old trends lmao
AND?

>>382919896

Nothing wrong with new game + for people who enjoy the replay value it brings to them. I can understand not enjoying a game that locks a substantial amount of content behind new game + though.

>>382920081
far cry 3 is pretty fun so far. just had to mod it to make it more difficult and to avoid all the towers

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>>382924258
>hardest difficulty makes the enemies health higher than needed
>makes their aim godlike
>makes your health that of a low level baby mixed with dirt
>theres an achievement for completing that mode

>Early access
Why the fuck do you expect me to pay full price for a game you haven't even finished

>>382920210
Post game content all the way. I don't like replaying a game right away aftet beating it. Almost never do ng+. And when i do its years later when I still have the save. Never finished 999 properly for this reason. It's just tedious and I have other games I could be playing

>can get a super special weapon/armor that does something no other weapon/armor in the game does
>can only get it after near to last story mission
It's like they assume I'm playing through story first, running past all the adventure and sidequests and only once I finished it I turn to see if there's anything else to do.

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>roguelite
>not tBoI

>>382924093

>t.DICE

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>Permadeath

>>382920386
my first mass effect was 2 and i thought a lot of that stuff was interesting, especially the science fiction behind what is called a "mass effect"

but im glad i didnt like the gameplay all that much and didnt bother with any others

It's been around since I was a kid but.
>padding a jrpg with hardcore grinding and pallete swap enemies to make a game 40 hours longer without any actual additional content.
I'd rather play 20 hours of decent gameplay, over 40 hours of amazing gameplay seperated by 40 hours of dog shit boring tedious bullshit.

>>382919896
b8

>game difficulty
>Easy
>Hard
>choosing easy removes the full ending
>beating the game on hard unlocks extra, shorter campaigns with other characters and new levels
I don't even care if it's the opposite of the thread topic. I want this back.

>>382920572
>fire/volcano level
>"Heating up"
>"if you cant stand the heat..."
>"I have a bone to pick with you"

>>382926457
Why? It's actually really annoying.
Making me play the game twice for additional content, or making me beat thr game on an easy difficulty to unlock the challenging one, etc. Makes it a grind.

>>382920081

>open world
>crafting
>survival

These sprung up like boom towns during the California gold rush when people grew aware that Minecraft was a magic money machine. But he unholy trifecta seems to be winding down.

I hate how virtually every game has to come tethered to a system like Steam or (god forbid) Origin now.
>Want to play my singleplayer, offline game
>Nope, can't play it until it's done downloading 20 minutes worth of Steam updates and game updates

>Sister and I use the same account
>Want to play one of my games
>Nope, can't play it because sister is playing Amnesia at her house and therefore I can't play Killing Floor at the same time

>>382926030
What mods?

>>382924475
What are talking about? XCX can be played without internet

>>382926628
I imagine BotW's success will breath a new life into them, along with physics fuckery engine.

>>382926767
Then it's not always online you retard

>>382926670
Offline games can be launched by just double clicking the .exe and you can change your settings to make steam not launch with it.

>>382919896
>mandatory NEW GAME+
fix'd
also
>microtransactions in $60 games, already packed with DLC and season passes

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>>382926826
When did I say it was always online?

>>382920784
>>382924093
>god why do SJWs care so much that there arent black characters? like lmao what does it matter
>REEEEEEEEE NIGGERS IN MUH VIDYA

i dont even care if it has to do with political climate, it is still just as much of a non-issue as it has always been when the characters were white. and in response to the t.cuck t. nigger replies im about to get; name some games where the gameplay was affected negatively by the textures on character models

>>382926860
I'll have to fiddle with it some more, I hadn't been able to find a setting to do that yet.

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>>382926060
>Difficulty makes everything oneshottable, even yourself
>Difficulty makes you Oneshottable with Hard Mode enemies

Plat trophy makes you complete the game in those diffculties

>hard difficult= you take more damage and enemies become bullet sponges
Name 1 (one) game that doesn't do this

>>382926965
Why did you provide it as a positive example of always online games?

>>382920414
never understood the hate
theyre optional and fun if you like collecting them

some are shitty like when you have timed ones you can only get certain times or when a game has 600+, but otherwise I think theyre a fun way to 100% a game

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Politically correct activism bullshit and its opposition ruined vidya more than any other shitty trend. Every game that has/doesn't have a non-white/woman character in it instantly goes to shit over racial/gender REEEing on both sides.
Prove me wrong.

Random unlock system (ie. lootboxes) in online games
I wish I could go back in time and kill whoever came up with that fucking garbage, it just makes me drop the game out of how frustrating it is to get anything that you want.
One of the reasons I dropped Payday 2 (along with the game just being shit anyways)

>>382927029
Works with less and less games these days though I am afraid.

>>382927153
GET OUT OF HERE S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl

>>382927234
Okay I see what happened, I'm not the anon who listed the game as always online and apparently he thought it's auto connectivity to online meant always online.

>>382927390
A good example
STALKER in some ways is easier on the highest difficulty, because you AND the enemies all take less hits

>>382927362
The games are 100% fine though. Like there are problems with AAA games by the bucketload these days but it has nothing to do with the GG toddler culture war. That just leads to shitting up of /v/.
I miss the grace period we had when cripplechan absorbed all those retards.

>>382927362
That's a cultural trend, not game's.

>>382921701
what if all those things are fun

youre not one of the super autists who judges how others have fun are you?

>>382927390
Both you AND enemies die in the same amount shots in STALKER, which vary per difficulty.
Easy difficulty = Everyone's a bullet sponge
Master difficulty = Everyone dies in 5 shots tops

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>>382927561
>Virtual numbers are fun
>Needing to have a game tell me I'm a good little boy for completing the tutorial level/killing my first enemy is fun
>Getting mad over competitiveness in videogames is fun
Yes, I will judge the fuck out of your autistic ass concept of "fun".

>day one patch
>It weights +3 GB
Seriously, why is this shit even necessary, I want to buy a game and play it , but the fucking game I just bought is incomplete, and it needs a day 1 (ONE) patch
Fucking lazy and Jew devs

>>382920751
>your attention span is at fault if you don't want to play a game through a second time
Nigger, I have a backlog of over 50 games and other shit to do in my life, NG+ can suck my fat cock.

Good NG+: Gives you optional story-line challenges, new weapons etc.

Infuriating NG+: Locks away all the extra content and actual story conclusion behind a second or even third playthrough of the game.

I don't care about achievements, but I don't have any issue with them in general either.
Where I think it gets stupid is when you get them for completely unremarkable shit. Like when you beat a level midway through a PS4 game and get a silver trophy for it. Like what the hell, I'm just doing what I have to do to progress, it's not especially hard or interesting in any way.

>>382919896
>a plot

>roguelike

>>382928123
>to get the actual ending you need to purchase the DLC.

>gameplay < story
If you want story, go to read a book

>>382926718
ziggy's mod hardcore version and immersive sounds (changes more than just sounds, definitely a necessary addition)

the way the game files work, youre lucky to be able to get 2 mods that dont overwrite eachother, like these 2. if youre using a pirated copy, youll have to google search and find how to hex edit immersive sounds, since it overwrites the cracked .dll

>>382928275
Go play tetris grandpa.

>>382920081

b-but i liek c:dda

>>382920751
Games are supposed to be fun not a fucking chore.

>>382928589
also turn all the hud elements off, except for wiki/collectable updates if you care to read those

>>382927362
My ideal game would be basically a much better Far Cry 2, but now I know that nobody could ever make a good game again where you're a foreign mercenary in Africa unless it's constantly telling you that you're a bad person and making you side with random poor villagers

>>382928509
Gee I sure love playing fucking pong for all eternity. No story to worry about!

>>382928589
Thanks.

>>382928509
>>382928275
>>382919896
>awful trends
lol you don't need to write a story if you put vague pieces of indo on post-its spread through the game lolololololol gampyal first amirite guises ??XDDD

>>382927002
BF1 is getting night missions, so niggers will be harder to spot.

>>382928706
You're stupid. Are you a nigger?

>Always degrading "sanity"

I refuse to play any game that does this shit. Fuck Amnesia for normalizing it

>>382928706
Please don't feed these retards (you)s

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Thank FUCK the online pass trend is over.

That was the worst scummiest shit ever.

>>382920081
You forgot
>early access

>>382928965
I mean they had shitty unintended consequences, but I liked them as a fuck you to gamestop.

>>382919896
>playing video game require skill
>it's an art look at me
Fuck off with your pseudo-art thinking you're not accomplish fuckall by playing video games.
That's like looking at paintings all day, using special glasses when can't even, and calling other names because they didn't see/bought the latest Van Gogh obviously showing their lack of art appreciation.
You ain't got no value, moron, even modding won't make you more interesting because you are a fucking parasite.
Moreover current state of video game art is equivalent to modern art.
Fuck, seriously.

>>382920081
9/10 times these games run like absolute shit on high end PCs for absolutely no reason

>>382921318
I hate when they add in unnecessary online components that you can't just opt out of.
Worst example I've played in recent memory was MGS:V
As soon as MGO launched for it, the game locked over half my resources to online, and I live in a rural area with sporadic network outages so I'd regularly lose access to most of my GMP and such. And then the guys attacking your fucking platforms and such, it's just dogshit.

>>382929190
I have no idea what the fuck you are even trying to say. But I admire your passion.

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>game has audio logs that provide backstory/lore
>can only listen to them in a menu that pauses the game

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>>382929093
Gamestop is still getting fucked as digital purchases become more popular.

However the growing trend of loot boxes is worrisome

>>382928768
see
>>382928676

>>382929586
Very much so. I don't mind them in free or like $5 games, but i refuse to buy Overwatch for this reason.

>>382929585
PAX HAMBURGANA

>>382920081
>he only knows those shit early access survival games

I'm so sorry, anon.

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>New Game + is bad
>New Game+ isn't a universally good feature that can only improve the experience

>>382930339
It's bad in instances where it hides content behind the wall of having to beat the game twice. A lot of the content should be available in the first playthrough or as post game content.
Especially extra difficulty settings, hidden bosses etc.
I don't mind when it's shit like keep your stats or items or get cheats or whatever.

>>382930339
>Playing the same game again improves the experience
Why would I give a shit about keeping all my items from the end of the game if early game's gonna be piss easy now that I'm all maxed out? Where's the fucking fun and challenge in that?

>>382929440
How surprising.

>>382930761
No, i mean like proofread or something. Try reading your posts out loud and see if they make sense.

>>382928509
Have a (You), Summer.

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>>382929190
What language is this?

>>382920790
What a shit game to end a good series on. The batmobile, the story, RED HOOD, it all sucked.

>>382930894
>>382932639
Not my fault if your brain is shit.

>>382932863
No but I'm willing to bet the F you got in English class was your fault.

>>382924427
I thought I was the only one.
Anyone else?

>Get to a tedious point in the game.
>It's easier when you have specific item
>Unlocks after beating the game.

Fucking Peace Walker

>>382928124
shit like
>log 44 hours into the game
is way worse and makes me hate your game for having to wait 20 fucking hours just to get that achiev

>>382920219
If by "surprisingly well" you mean "in an incredibly boring, shallow, and repetitive way"

>>382926227
I never got this.
It doesn't make any sense.
Why give a new ability at the end of the game before the player gets a chance to get familiar with it. Seems like a waste.

>>382932863
>being this autistic
did you skip the part in 1st grade about reading comprehension?

>>382933095
Wow, what an useful comment, really.

>>382933546
>projecting so much

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>>382933673
>being this delusional
nigger you're fucking hihg or you were born prematurely
i rest my case :D

Lootboxes

>>382922307
Crafting

>>382933960
Crucial for traditional MMORPGs.

>>382933960
minecrap is awesome you fucking googa

>>382926180
>Earliest access!

>>382933673
im a third person joining the fray, but let me help you out
>pseudo-art thinking
>you're not accomplish
>using special glasses when can't even, and
>You ain't got no value, moron, even modding won't make you more interesting

its all nonsense. you seem to be arbitrarily changing subjects without warning throughout your couple run-on sentences, have trouble with words like "the" that are necessary to structure a sentence, and using "aint" and calling others morons in the same sentence irks me, personally.